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cliffc276J.K. Trotter
9/15/14 6:56pm
The police protection is part of his contract with News Corp. News Corp fully reimburses the Borough of Cresskill for the law enforcement protection, there is no cost to the taxpayer. Not going to say how I know this, but I do...
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  cliffc276cliffc276
  9/15/14 7:00pm
  Add to that Cresskill has 28 officers not 15 and the "Out of Town" agency is the County Police, which Cresskill Taxpayers do pay for. A black suitcase at the home of a major news exec. warrants such a response..
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  J.K. Trottercliffc276
  9/15/14 7:04pm
  Do you have any evidence of that, though? I specifically requested documents pertaining to such security arrangements, and got nothing back. Also, I cannot think of any situation that’s similar to the one you describe. Why wouldn’t News Corp just hire its own security?
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Stan SmithJ.K. Trotter
9/15/14 3:11pm
I grew up in Bergen County and my parents still retain a residence there. None of this is shocking nor do I think it has anything to do with Roger Ailes being Roger Ailes. Very rich very white neighborhoods expect this kind of service. My mother called the cops because her neighbor was being very loud at midnight (sounded like a frat party) 2 cop cars were there within 3 minutes of hanging up the call. Part of it has to do with the fact that they are driving around with nothing to do (our town has one of the lowest %s of crime in the country) I'm sure I could get similar service if I believed someone left a bomb outside my house or my alarm was going off.
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  J.K. TrotterStan Smith
  9/15/14 3:19pm
  But it does have to do with Roger Ailes being Roger Ailes. It says so right here!
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  Stan SmithJ.K. Trotter
  9/15/14 3:31pm
  J.K. It doesn't though. It says that upon responding they were informed that the resident is an "executive at CNN" (I assume he meant Fox but whatever) and he has received death threats before. That establishes a narrative that the police needed to take this seriously because its not the "hey there was a suitcase out there have no idea how it got there, no one has ever threatened me, not even my exes." But rather the "hey I've been threatened before because I am an executive at CNN (Fox really) so it gives the death threat credence. Similarly I've received several death threats and if a mysterious package showed up at my front door my statement would be similar when the police arrived "I'm a New York City Attorney and I've received Death Threats in the past."
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Kevin H.J.K. Trotter
9/15/14 3:36pm
Quite breathless we are. I happen to work in the media a rather wealthy ZIP in Northern California, named one of America's safest, and can tell you everyone in the two towns gets exactly this kind of treatment if they simply ask, and the police are proud of it. You can request extra patrols or a vacation check, and the cops will cruise by your house to make sure everything's OK. Completely typical to read the police log on a weekly basis and find several calls in which someone called the cops thinking that maybe they left their front door or slider or garage door open and could the cops swing by and check for them. I'm not a big fan of Ailes by any stretch, but when you live in wealthy communities without a lot of crime, this is part of what your tax dollars pay for. They don't want one fewer cop on the beat to save money, but with no crime the police literally have nothing better to do than cruise around and make sure residents feel "safe" by checking on homes and property. It's like that in the wealthy pockets all over this county, and certainly all over this country. There are about 10,000 residents between the two towns in the ZIP I'm referring to, with TWO police departments, and both chiefs (whom I speak with professionally on a regular basis) would have given you the same answer that all 10,000 residents enjoy the privilege.
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  J.K. TrotterKevin H.
  9/15/14 3:39pm
  Would they characterize each home as a high-profile residence, mandate that outside agencies not broadcast any of their addresses over the radio, and describe their protection of each residence as dedicated 24/7 security?
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  PitzerGrimmaceKevin H.
  9/15/14 3:58pm
  "but when you live in wealthy communities without a lot of crime, this is part of what your tax dollars pay for. "
  
  How can anyone be okay with this. Wealthy tax payers get police doing their job. Black and Brown taxpayers get used by police as punching bags, statistic generators and target practice.
  
  I have a feeling that the few families who live in that community of color probably wouldn't get the same treatment as their white counterparts.
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stacyinbeanJ.K. Trotter
9/15/14 3:03pm
24 hour security on the taxpayer's dime? Doesn't sound very bootstrappy to me.
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  blameitonthecroutons goodbye tourstacyinbean
  9/15/14 3:10pm
  Why hasn't he read up on how to disarm his own bombs? How come he doesn't have his own guns to protect his home? Why does he rely on the police to protect him? IT TAKES TIME FOR THEM TO RESPOND TO THINGS SO THEY ARE USELESS! ROGER OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!
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Angry WaspJ.K. Trotter
9/15/14 3:12pm
What a welfare queen.
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  ACRFilmAngry Wasp
  9/15/14 5:51pm
  That's putting it nicely, I was thinking "paranoid schizophrenic".
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  Angry WaspACRFilm
  9/16/14 1:23am
  with that he can make himself the victim.
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rmric0.wedding.photographerJ.K. Trotter
9/15/14 5:26pm
Honestly, the alarm thing is pretty normal if you pay to have it hooked into the 9/11 System. When I was reporting part of my job was scanning the police logs for interesting tidbits and half of the list was alarms having been tripped by residents or employees to the point where some departments have a charge for repeat false alarms.

It is weird for them to claim he's got 24/7 protection from the department.
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  J.K. Trotterrmric0.wedding.photographer
  9/15/14 6:49pm
  Very weird!
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SideBarJ.K. Trotter
9/15/14 3:37pm
I am no fan of this guy, but a lot of what's in this article seems not really that surprising to me (and maybe more intended to just sling a little mud on a slow news day). Local police in small Bergen County towns are generally very, very responsive to all residents. (Maybe cuz the taxes are generally astronomical in Bergen County and people would go batshit if they couldn't treat the local police as their little private condo security force). If I called the cops in my town — a few towns over from Cresskill — and asked them to check something at my house while I was away, they would. The fact that a very wealthy and very high profile guy gets special notice from the town's police — who, after all, are charged with keeping the peace — seems like a non-story to me. Chris Rock and Oprah live in the next town over (or at least they did at some point); if they called the police in Alpine, shit would get done in a hurry.

It's certainly worth noting that wealthier Americans in affluent towns get better and more responsive treatment from local police — and it shouldn't be like that — but singling out Roger Ailes as somehow being an egregious example of that disparity in American life seems a little disingenuous to me.
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thisisnottheplaceJ.K. Trotter
9/15/14 3:31pm
I guess if nothing else, it's somewhat comforting to know that Roger Ailes live in a constant state of panicked, anxiety everyday, fed only by his own lies and disillusionment.
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toothpetardJ.K. Trotter
9/15/14 3:41pm
If they're not his minions whose minions are they?
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  DoctorNinetoothpetard
  9/15/14 3:49pm
  Indeed...
  
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ibcinguJ.K. Trotter
9/15/14 3:31pm
His wife is 20 years younger than him so his mother-in-law must be about his age, which would explain why she can't maneuver in the house without constantly setting off the burglar alarm.
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